Doves Farm (organic vegan breakfast cereals)
Doves Farm is a company (from the North Wessex Downs) better known for making organic and gluten-free flours and baking powders.
But it also offers a tidy line of organic breakfast cereals, many of them the ideal alternatives to English favourites (like cornflakes, bran flakes and cocoa pops), but this time from a local ethical company that isn’t owned by a corporate giant.
Recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your council does not recycle. Keep these cereals away from young children and pets due to nuts, dried fruits, chocolate etc. Read more on food safety for people and pets.
Doves Farm offers a balanced alternative. The range includes:
- Ancient Grain Breakfast Flakes are made with buckwheat (a seed related to rhubarb), quinoa (an Andean superfood packed with protein and calcium) and teff (the world’s smallest grain, and packed with protein).
- Ancient Grain Fruit & Fibre Flakes are a crunchy mix of buckwheat and wholegrain rice, with banana, coconut, sultanas and apple pieces.
- Organic cornflakes – the ultimate alternative to England’s favourite breakfast cereal. But these ones are a little more expensive, but that’s because they’re organic.
- Wholegrain Cocoa Rice Pops are the alternatives if you have to have chocolate for your breakfast. These are made with premium organic cocoa, to boot.
How to choose a healthy breakfast cereal
You don’t have to be a saint if you like a bit more sugar (and you can always bulk up fibre later on in the day). But an easy way to check if a cereal is healthy or not is to look at the nutrition box. By 100g, it should have over 5g of fibre and less than 5 of sugar (in the carbs section).
The best-selling brand of cornflakes has just 3g of fibre. You’d be better off eating an apple. The same brand’s cocoa pops up the sugar to 17g and their most sugary cereal (advertised by a tiger) is a whopping 37g sugar. No wonder children’s teeth are rotting.
